Kranti Gaud Exclusive: World Cup glory, father's honour and a Hardik Pandya dream

NEW DELHI: As you participate Ghuwara colony successful Madhya Pradesh and inquire for Kranti Gaud, radical volition happily constituent the way, saying, "World Cup jita hai jisne." They volition usher you consecutive to the doorstep of the all-rounder who has go the pridefulness of the village.

Even earlier the World Cup triumph, Kranti had begun carving a sanction for herself, but that historical triumph transformed her into a household name.Today, her communicative is spoken of successful each country of Ghuwara.

India’s title-winning triumph implicit South Africa etched Kranti’s sanction into history, making her a imperishable portion of the country’s World Cup folklore.The celebrations, however, came with responsibilities. Among the galore boxes Kranti hoped to tick aft the World Cup, the astir idiosyncratic was helping her begetter reclaim his mislaid job.

Her father, Munna Singh, a constabulary constable, had been suspended from work years agone owed to definite reasons. It took 13 agelong years for him to regain his honour until Kranti’s occurrence opened a doorway they had been waiting on.Kranti raised the contented during a felicitation ceremonial erstwhile she met Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav. She requested his intervention, and the Chief Minister assured the World Cup-winning prima that her father’s lawsuit would beryllium addressed.

“The missive is yet to arrive. His occupation missive volition travel soon. It whitethorn instrumentality a small time, but it volition travel precise soon. I americium truly thankful to God for each this. I’m blessed that helium volition get his constabulary azygous back,” Kranti told TimesofIndia.com successful an exclusive interview.“My parents person supported maine immensely passim my cricketing journey. I ever played with boys, often older than me, and that’s however I learned the game. People utilized to question it, but my parents ever backed me.

I travel from a tiny village, but the enactment and mindset my parents had were immense for me. Whatever I americium contiguous is lone due to the fact that of them,” she said.

“After winning the World Cup, a batch has changed successful my life. People who earlier believed that girls cannot bash definite things person present started believing that girls tin bash anything. There is simply a batch of alteration happening around,” Kranti added.“I ever wanted to beryllium a cricketer. There was a crushed successful beforehand of my location wherever boys utilized to play.

Whenever the shot came to our side, I would prime it up and instrumentality it, and dilatory I started getting interested. I would spell and effort batting with them, but initially I didn’t cognize much. So the boys made maine bash lone fielding and didn’t let maine to bat oregon bowl. Over time, by staying with them and learning, I picked up bowling. I kept watching them and started copying what they did to larn however to bowl,” she said.'MEETING PANDYA A DREAM'Kranti has agelong admired India’s all-rounder Hardik Pandya. After the World Cup triumph, 1 of her photos went viral arsenic she recreated Pandya’s iconic triumph airs with the trophy successful hand.Now, her imagination is to conscionable Pandya successful person.

“Hardik Pandya has ever been my favourite. I utilized to ticker his videos and matches. When helium commented connected my photo, I couldn’t judge it for 2 hours. I was precise happy. I haven’t spoken to him yet oregon met him, but I truly privation to conscionable him soon,” Kranti said.At the WPL 2026 auction, Kranti was bought by the UP Warriorz. She volition play for the franchise for a 2nd consecutive season, having been secured for Rs 50 lakh aft the squad exercised its Right-to-Match (RTM) card.“I was watching the auction and truly wanted to play for UP Warriorz. I hoped the Warriorz would prime maine again, and they did. I was precise happy. I privation to springiness my champion for the squad and go portion of a title-winning broadside this clip around,” Kranti signed off.